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This was good. And I mean hair-rippping, damn-it-why-do-you-do-this-to-me, fuckyou frustratingly good! I'll put it right out there, this was better than the first novel, for sure.

Where as the first one was too ~twilight-esque~ for me, I seriously thought this novel was KICKASS. Katy was tots badass the whole way, and everything she did actually made sense. You know when you read a novel with a heroine that just does things that make you want to tear your hair out? Nuh uh. Not here. Maybe except for when she kept pushing Daemon away... but for a reason that made sense to me. But I will admit that sometimes I wanted to throw my Kobo across the room and scream, JUST KISS AND FUCK YOU TWO!!! And then there was the action. Boy, it was hella exciting. I didn't know who to trust, and my brain was whirring at 200km/s at every chapter. This book kept me on my toes, and I loved that it did that to me.

There was never a boring second, and I can guarantee that you will be excited and wary for the whole novel. I found that the plot really found depth in this novel, and that Daemon and Katy's chemistry in this novel was reaaally sizzling and hot in this one.

Highly recommended. And I'm totally anticipating the next novel in this series.

✭✭✭✭✩ 4/5 stars for me. An unexpected fav for sure!

Let me just gush about how much I loved this book.. and I totally did not expect to love it. (AT
ALL!!!)

 I loved loved loved loved Sam and Jase's relationship. When Sam ran into Jase's arms after the disastrous car ride, I felt so safe, and I felt exactly how Sam felt. They were very mature, and I loved the condom purchasing, because that was hilarious. I loved the way they handled the sex and virginity stuff. It was a lot more refreshing than the stuff I've read before.

This book was not a typical chicklit. The twist's were great and intriguing, and the plotline was great. It may seem to start off as a typical romance book, but the real issue that comes up is adding oil to the fire.  It just made me love the book even more. Clay was a crazy asshole, and I loved Tim. I kind of wanted to kick him in the beginning of the book, but he just became precious and awesome. Oh, and Nan can go shove it. Academic dishonesty is not the way to leave what you hate behind.

Then, I felt that Samantha was very relatable, even though she did live a cushy life. She works two jobs; that is exactly like me, and she hates the smell of bacon, oil and coffee. Oh, did I mention that I work at a fast food restaurant and that I hate it too? She was super mature, and I understood all her decisions. Unlike some heroines...

Also, her mother was written really well. Grace came off as uptight, OCD, and neurotic, but I'm glad she did the right thing in the end. I understood her "EVERYTHING IS IN SHADES OF GREY SAMANTHA" logic, and I wish that the book stuck to that, instead of the somewhat happy yet vague ending.

However, all in all, this book really hit the spot, and can really surprise you. Highly recommended.

Kody Keplinger's stories may be typical in their plot formats, but they stand out somehow with her unique writing. Her writing really captures the essence of troubled teenagers and I feel myself relating to them really well, even if I am nothing like them, I am a teenager too. The fucks, bitches, whores, may take a while to get used to, but I slowly accepted it. Because... that's how teenagers speak. Duh.

I have mixed feelings about this book. Maybe because Whitley was so crazy in the beginning and I really didn't know what to think of her. At times, I wanted to grab her shoulders and holler into her ear, saying "LOOK HERE YOU STUPID GIRL WHAT ARE YOU DOING STOP DRAGGING YOURSELF INTO THIS MESS"!

I also felt that her attitude really pissed me off, but I understood it... because I relate to her situation with her parents etc.

This is pretty realistic in terms of the whole family thing, and I think I really gave my heart to Whitley for that. I also really liked Nathan because he was such a cute dork, and Harrison (who I didn't expect to show up in this book)! He was so nice to Whitley and I'm glad we got to see more of him, because he was only mentioned in the passing in The Duff. In terms of the romance, you could say that it's very unrealistic, but at least it was written well. Having a one-night-stand with a boy at a graduation party, taking his virginity, and becoming his stepsister is very unlikely. But it was definitely fun and hilarious to read about. I had a lot of "Oh my god" moments while reading this.

Lastly, I thought that Kody Keplinger manages to capture the personalities of troubled teenagers well, but Bianca and Whitley are nothing alike. They may seem like it at first, but I went back to re-read The Duff, and they definitely are different. Bianca has friends, she's accepting, she's sarcastic, but she's soft. Whitley is just plain hard and it takes forever to crack that shell of hers. The way that Bianca and Whitley described Hamilton was so different, that I didn't even realize it was the same setting. Bianca never really mentioned it's "boring-ness" but Whitley really brought it out and made me sort of see the town in a different light.

All in all, I felt that Keplinger brought out her writing well in this novel, even if it wasn't a stellar one!

★★★☆☆ Rating: 3/5stars

I would have given this a way higher rating if there weren't so many open-ended questions that I was waiting to be answered... but then again, this is a standalone. I was really curious about whether the Posts were actually immune to another Reduction, etc.

I felt that the Posts and Luddites were written extremely well, and their positions, standings, and manners were depicted perfectly in a manner that was easy to understand and relate to. Luddites were the "smart" ones. Posts were inferior, even though they had done nothing to deserve it, and they were no less than the Luddites. 

The post apocalypse world was written pretty well, and realistically. This could also be seen as a warning to us, right? Haha. As if I could find any places that sold exclusively organic food with no genetic modifications without breaking my wallet. How did the Luddites do it?

I felt that the characters were definitely complex but they didn't develop much. I especially loved Ro, and at the end of the book, when Elliot gave her the name Tomorrow, I had shivers going down my back. It was so perfect and symbolic to the novel, and when they boarded the ship, I truly felt hope for their post-apocalyptic world! Everyone was easy to sympathize with and my heart especially broke for Kai and Elliot. What a jerk!

I wanted to punch him for the majority of the novel unfortunately. :l

Anyways. This is a fantastic retelling of Austen's Persuasion and the way Peterfreund kind of "fooled" us by thinking that this was going to be a futuristic tale, we were wrong in a way. It was futuristic, but not in the "advanced technology way."

It was like a rewind into the past... but in the future! And yes, it made sense.
This was a cleverly thought out novel, but I felt that there was room for a lot more development and the ending was too hastily and perfectly tied up. 


I wish there was a sequel because I would DEFINITELY read it!

★★★★★ (5/5stars)!!!!!! First off, I would like to say that this book was perfect. Amazing. Crazy good. Echols isn't afraid to reveal the underbellies of society, and she shows that the underbelly isn't always bad as well. Good can come out of it. Like Leah.

Let's start off with the cover. The girl with her crazy flying hair seems irrelevant at first, but you read into the book, and realize that her hair is pretty important. It's mentioned a lot of times. Then, the title. Perfect. It was a motif throughout the whole book and wound its way through everything Grayson and Leah said. It was an amazing thing to work around, and it just held up the book so well. Grayson and Leah ran on adrenaline, and every time the word "rush" was mentioned, I wanted to scream in delight. It was absolute PERFEEEECTION.

Alright, you might be shocked to read about Leah at first. The poor trailer park girl with the crazy mum who lost her virginity when she was fourteen... but she manages to escape her past and finds a passion. And that passion saves her from going down the wrong road. People judge her so hard, but she manages it so well. She doesn't let it get to her, and not in those obvious ways that usual YA heroines display it. Her narration skims over the judgemental people, and she doesn't need to point it out. It just shows that she's strong, and doesn't let that shit get to her. Leah is amazing.

And yes. I was a bit repulsed when they first mentioned her smoking, but when Mr. Hall made her quit... I pumped my fist! The smoking was very realistic. Yes. It's something that happens but I'm happy that the author pulled Leah out of it. It made me really happy because Leah had become a friend to me. I wanted the best for her.

The romance is written really well as well, and yes. Leah and Grayson is such a rush. The deaths, were also very realistic. I'm sorry that they happened, but they really left a mark on the characters that made them so much more interesting to read about, and made everyone so much more complex. (Although, I did resent Molly a bit at times.)

If you're looking for a well-written, well-paced, WELL THOUGHT OUT BOOK, THIS IS IT. I can't think of any flaws at the moment. It was sooo good. PLEASE READ IT.

★★☆☆☆ (2/5stars) This might be a little hard to read if you haven't previously trudged through historical romances. The style of this book is very traditional to the historical romances that I've read, so some people might not be used to it. It can be hard to get into. I thought it was rather cutely written, although I've seen this same type of format in a lot of other historical romances. Obviously Fredericks is going to be rich and the one who will marry Althea. Anyone can see that. The evil stepsister thing was a little typical and I found Althea such an annoying meddling girl at times... but then I felt that it was such a part of her character that I couldn't hate it. I also didn't expect Frederick's to be the one who paid for all the repairs. There isn't much to say about this book because it's such a light read and doesn't have much depth.

★★★★★ 5/5 stars!!!

This was such a lovely end to a gem of a series. If you just base this series off of it's appearance, then you are completely wrong. Yes, it is labeled as a "children's" book but it's a lot more mature than you would think it is, and the main character Desi is really mature for a 13/14 year old. I was NOT that mature when I was that old!!! Lindsey Leavitt should have at least made Desi 15/16... But oh well.

Anyways. This novel reaches beyond the scope of the hey-let's-just-invent-magic-for-the-sake-of-using-it-for-this-agency-and-the-plot-and-not-mention-it's-uses-for-world-peace-and-shit. It actually asks the question "If we have this magic, why don't we use it for the greater good of the planet? which is totally something that I don't see often. Did I mention that this is labeled as a children's book?

The ending to the series' conflict was realistic. Using subs' magic and stripping of their memories sounds reasonable to me, (I mean, for the sake of the plot of course lol) and if Facade had been doing it for so long, it would be unrealistic for Desi to suddenly just change everything. Genevieve offering them to run another branch of the company made sense, and I guess everything just wrapped up really nicely for me!

I don't get why Leavitt had to throw in that doubt of whether Reed was the one subbing for Prince Karl... but it did add some spice to the book. Reed and Desi are really cute! BUT I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE DESI AS A 13/14 YEAR OLD. Leavitt you are too mature to be writing about a 13/14 year old.

All in all, I really loved this series. The synopsis sounds really stupid and kiddish, but the prince/princess/royalty/magic thing is handled really well and there's some cute romance in it.

 If you're looking for a guilty pleasure read or you're just bored out of your mind, read this. It's awesome :3 Leavitt is a surprisingly awesome writer.

Rating: ★★★★★ (5/5)

Seraphina is a well-spun tale that will touch your heart, grapple you in with hooks and refuse to let you go. The world is unbelievable, each character sparkles like a gem and finally, an amazing plot spun with fine golden threads holds this story together.

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Wow. What a doozy. I originally had anticipates something more clean-cut but Harkness surprised me. She wrote Elizabethan England quite well and the Roman Empire was really great as well. She captured the essences of each world perfectly and I loved everything. Each character was absolutely lovely and I gave my heart to SO many of them. Jack, Annie, the Earl... Each of them were so likeable! Especially Goody and Corra. Harkness also inserted a lot of side events that sometimes bored me but I absolutely LOVED Philippe. He was a great father figure, and his interactions with Diana made me smile. Speaking of fathers... We get to meet Diana's! Stephen was exactly how I imagined him to be. (Plus, his appearance was very unexpected for me too.) ALSO. Marcus and Phoebe. THAT IS MY NEW OTP. Oh my god. I love them. We only got a short introduction of them... and we didn't even find out how they got together!! Darn you Harkness. I was looking forward to that. :-(( BTW ANYONE NOTICE CORRA? THAT TOTALLY REMINDED ME OF THE LEGEND OF KORRA. In this novel, we really get to see Diana and Matthew in their married life, and I felt that that their relationship was so much better written than in the first book. They had real issues, and they got through them in a realistic way... and I actually really loved their dynamic in this book. Surprisingly, they actually handled the miscarriage less severely than I would have imagined. Overall, I felt that the "darkness" Matthew was experiencing was quite realistic and wasn't extremely eye-roll-inducing like in other vampire books. Funny... Diana even talked about those sappy vampire rape books in the novel. That made me laugh. (lol) Anyways. although Harkness really indulged in the world and spent a great deal of time within it, I felt that the pacing worked well, and everything was really well written. Highly recommend!!! (Albeit it is a bit long... but you should be used to that.)

I received this Advance Reader's copy thanks to Marissa Meyer herself! Many thanks.

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5)

Phew! I finally received this long awaited ARC! (Funny enough, it was squished into my tiny apartment mailbox, but came out perfectly intact.)

First Impressions
The fairytale twist in Cinder is a bit different than I expected, but I'm totally down for it. Wolf was a fantastic character (although I thought his introduction was a bit hilarious for some reason) and the only word I can use to describe him and Scarlet is... sexy.
The novel started off slightly slower than I expected, but it definitely picked itself up. I didn't really like Scarlet at first, because she seemed like a typical hotheaded young lady. When the POV switched to Cinder, I was really glad for the first half of the book. Scarlet was a little bit too angry for my liking. I guess she sort of redeemed herself with Wolf!

Characters


Cinder, of course, was absolutely fantastic. I could tell that she was still wavering in her resolve, but she proved to be a strong lead in the end.

Scarlet, bored me at times with her cliche lines and feelings... I think Cinder was too much of a refreshing POV for me! I slowly came to admire her bravery in the face of adversity, and also her weaknesses, which were of course... merely human weaknesses. She couldn't help them.
An interesting switch in  POV from Cinder who was always mistreated and had many doubts, to Scarlet who is loud, angry, and strong. 


P.S. WOLF IS HELLA SEXY.


...and last but not least, what I liked and didn't liked. It was a bit slow going with the introduction but it slowly picked up the pace towards the end and I felt that this novel paced the story for Cinder, and allowed her to gather her thoughts and come to a resolve. Scarlet's plot seems independent, but I'm sure she'll play an important role in the novels to come.

What I didn't like was that I felt that I was being dragged along, whereas when I was reading Cinder, I was on my toes constantly.

What I liked was the refreshing originality, romance, and overall plot.
Seriously looking forward to the next novel. OASIDFLKASJF (I might have to wait the same time as everyone else next time though D:)

-vivian

Well hello! Long time no see. So, it's 4:52PM, and around three hours ago I was at my local mall (is two blocks away local? or neighbourhood pfft.) to attend a signing!

Marissa Meyer was at Chapters Metrotown!

I admit, walking in and finding a small audience facing a podium was startling. I thought it was going to be somewhere more public, but it was nestled right inside the store, right infront of the YA section. (I guess that makes sense, right?) So I passed by all the adults and perched myself in a seat in the second row (after bumping into a girl with my gigantic backpack and crashing into a bookshelf). I sat there reading my ereader (because I was forty minutes early) and voila! Meyer was there!

She was a lot skinnier than I expected her to be (her goodreads photo must be outdated). Meyer talked about how she got the idea for her novel, and it was pretty entertaining.

I'll summarize her story for all of you guys!

Meyer apparently got into writing from Sailor Moon, and writing fanfiction. (lmfao this sounds eerily like me) So she wrote for 10+ years, and somehow she found a competition where you needed to choose two elements from the list and include it into her story, So she chose...

Futuristic, and fairy tale. 


Meyer wrote a puss n' boots set in the future, and thus, she became interested in the genre!

Then, nanowrimo came up, and there was an event for seattle residents. It stated that if you wrote the most words in November, you could be on Star Trek! She told us (with great humour) that her whole family were Trekkies. She got third place, but she wrote drafts for the Lunar Chronicles! After two years from that point, she revised Cinder and ta-da!

She then told us to ask her questions and what not, and the gist of the whole thing was that...

1. The future books will be based on new heroines, with Cinder in them as well, but it's not going to be completely Cinder!
2. All the heroines are going to meet up at the end and join forces against the Queen.
3. Book two will be 40% Cinder, 50% Scarlet.

So I went up, she signed the inside with my name, and I asked her to sign the front with a silver sharpie. :) Apparently she has this red shoe event thing going on so I happened to be wearing white converse with red stars on them (lmao) so she told me to write down my address so I would receive A CINDER MIRROR! COOL. I CAN'T WAIT :D

I took a picture with her and that was it. Here are the pictures.

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Alright. I'll admit it. I thought this was gonna be a light romance that takes place all on a plane where they get off and exchange #'s. TADA. HAHAHA. Well it does say that it takes place over a 24hour period. Flights to Taiwan take 12 hours okay? Nice cover by the way. Looked forward to reading this.

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Okay okay. The romance wasn't really believable. I guess it could happen that you become super comfortable with someone you met for a few hours... and especially if you're setting right next to each other on the airplane. But it was a little too coincidental for my liking. Oliver was too perfect, and I didn't get to see more about him, but then again... twenty-four hours. I'll let this go.

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What I really loved about this was the whole divorce-marriage-funeral thing. I could totally relate to it, since my relationship with my father is almost non-existant. When Hadley was describing how uncomfortable she was with the change with her two parents, I felt my heart ache in a way that I already experienced before. The HEA was expected and they came to terms with what they couldn't a little too fast, but the feelings were genuine.

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I wish I could meet a guy for a few hours on the plane, follow him to his dad's funeral, have him follow me back to my dad's wedding reception, dance with me, kiss, and fall in love.

But that's never gonna happen.

Wow! Long time no see. :( I've been reading a Discovery of Witches for a whole week. Don't know why it took me so long to re-read it. Anyways. Read on!

To be quite honest, I thought this was gonna be crap. It was ok, actually! (better than ok.)

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So the cover is kind of. Um. You know. Crappy. HAHAHA. So I didn't have high expectations. So I just kept reading and reading. Let's just say, I wasn't impressed just by the summary or the cover.

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I barely knew what the characters looked like!! Same issue as a lot of the books but I guess the relationship was more important right? Oh. And sex right after ten minutes of talking? I don't know if sexual attracting can be that sizzling. Right?

I mean, come on. I know the author let the relationship carry on AFTER the sex, but it didn't seem special, and it just seemed physical. I'm glad it was addressed though. It made the ~love~ seem more believable?

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I love dirty history. God. I loved the background stories of the two main characters!! It makes it worth a second read. I thought the dirty history was gonna be some stupid thing, but it was actually pretty bad! I really liked that. Mmmhm. Two thumbs up.

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Don't let the crappy cover and ten-minute-talking-lets-fuck first few chapters fool you, this book can worm it's way into your heart.

The first part of Everneath sucks. And then Jack comes in, turns shit around and the last part of the book is just bah. Soul-tearing.

By the way, isn't Caputo a milk company or something? LOL. (I kept thinking this whenever they mentioned his last name.)

I have a few things to say about this novel though,

#1 The cover is crap and totally misleading.
#2 The summary is total crap as well and a total turn-off.
#3 Jack is amazing and the romance is mind-blowing.
#4 I was almost tempted to like Cole...
#5 and I need a sequel SO BAD.

I know some people read the summary and assume that the novel is all about her trying to escape but ends up in Cole's arms, but no. It's far from that. It's a novel about relentlessness, running, confronting mistakes, heart-wrenching romance and just sad and pure pure pure 100% desperation.

And the order this story is told in is simply breath-taking. The beginning is totally confusing and shit but as you keep reading you are just all asiofjasoifj sa:-00000000 . I love how the answers were finally given at the very end of the novel, and the history between Jack and Nik was so cute. And sad. Oh god. I can't think about the ending without safojoiafdsjoasi screaming!!!

Please read this.

Oh god. I can't believe I loved it, but I did!!!!

★★★★☆ (4/5 stars)

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I LOVE Janet Lee Carey. I first read Dragon's Keep while I was in Elementary School (or something) and I really really love the way she writes. I thought this was something related to Dragon's Keep, so I picked it up. Oh, and the cover is GORGEOUS. Way better than Dragon's Keep, that's for sure.

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No character was PERFECT. THEY WERE ALL FLAWED IN GREAT WAYS. AND REALISTIC WAYS. (Like Meg and Poppy.) Garth (or w/e you want to call him, don't want to spoil anything) was amazing. He was such a kind and caring character, which is kind of cliche but I love his heart! He didn't judge anything by looks and he was still vulnerable, like any other man. Carey didn't write him as the perfect man, which is what I hate about some books.

 Flawed girls with perfect guys? NO THANK YOU. BOYS ARE FLAWED  AS WELL.

I also LOVED LOVED LOVED how Carey wrote everything so OUT there. She didn't make any perfect girls, and Tess was not an exception. Her cauliflowered ear and blackened thumbs weren't healed ~magically~ in anyway, and Tess was totally not cliche.

I loved her resilience against Lady Adela as well. GOD I LOVED THIS!!

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I saw everything a mile away. If you kind of follow the writing, you can tell that Tess isn't going to wed to some normal man. And if you think about Garth's hunting lodge... Well, DUH. I apologize if that spoiled anything!

But I hated how I never realized in the beginning, so that forced me to re-read the whole thing.

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The characters were beautiful but I saw everything 10 god damn kilometres away.

Well that was better than I expected.

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I had pretty high hopes for this book, since some of the reviews really praised it... I actually bought the epub of this book, which kind of shows how desperate I was to read it. I put this one down for a few months and finally finished it today.

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okay okay. I loved the integration of Pride and Prejudice (I LOVE LOVE LOVE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE). I didn't realize how it fit in with the story until the very end and it just gave me a bunch of little grins. Oh, and Brian. Brian totally made me laugh. I loved Todd as well. What a quirky character. Jack seemed like a normal, and talented nice guy and he didn't really strike me as anything... except the last scene of the book was really cute. I loved it. I loved it!! I'LL ADMIT. I LIKED IT!! I think the characters were nicely developed.

Oh and the $3 rose thing? We do that too at my school. Haha. Liked it. 

Also the bullying stuff? I liked it. Don't ask me why, but I LOVED THE BULLYING SCENES. AHAHA! SO REALISTIC.

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I'll admit it was cliche... but I don't have a lot of bad things to say about this book, except that it was really cliche. But it was nicely written!

So yeah. this was definitely better than I expected! 3.5 stars for me. :)

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This soulless book was pointless. All it did was follow the same formula of twilight and YA novels and added some deities and souls.

IT WAS MISERABLE. Half the time I was fighting a mad urge to throw my ereader and I was groaning at the scenes where Pagan was all emotional about Dank leaving. Then she gets sent to a loony bin.

And Pagan gave boring monotonous speeches with no contractions that made me gag.

This all sounds like BLOODY TWILIGHT.

1. male is inhuman, check.
2. male stalks woman in room, check.
3. male sings woman to sleep, check.
4. woman befriends other male for comfort from her love leaving, check.
5. AND THEN HE COMES
BACK TO SAVE HER FROM A PSYCHO FEMALE. CHECK.

TWILIGHT I SAY. TWILIGHT. I AJSOIDFJASOIJ GAHHH IT WAS SO STUPIDLY FRUSTRATING BECAUSE PAGAN WAS /EMOTIONLESS/. EVEN THOUGH THEY SAY SHE WAS "PASSIONATE". SHE WAS ANOTHER BELLA SWAN TO ME.

Bah. I dont know if I will read the sequel when it comes out. /massages temples.

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OKAY OKAY. But I'll admit. I liked the romance. /screams

I'm done.


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THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING. PERFECTION MAYBE.
I WAS CLUTCHING AND SCREAMING MY E-READER THE WHOLE TIME
AND GASPING IN AP PSYCHOLOGY DESPITE THE STARES I GOT
IT
WAS
AMAZING.　///AND CUT. My insane raving.


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Oh. Woah there. What a whirlwind.
I never realized that this book may not suit others, but from the moment I picked it up, I can say that I was COMPLETELY hooked. I kept reading and reading and didn't realize how fast I'd sped through this. (And that has NEVER happened to me before.)


And yes, some people may think it moved slow, but AU CONTRAIRE.. I think it was WELL DEVELOPED.


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The language hooked me and really appealed to me and I loved Meyer's descriptive language. I mean, I can completely map out each scene in my head and every single character... Except for their faces!


Also, the SETTING. The setting REALLY hooked me in and it was a mix of everything, EVERYTHING I love and loved. It's also everything that I am. (Asian culture, hence, asian.) New Beijing with Technology? It also had a hint of old-fashionedness which I looooove. I'm all about regency y'know. Loooooved this. Soooo bad.


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I felt that Meyer really lacked in describing Cinder and Kaito or any of the characters. Sure, I know Kai's hair colour but I know barely anything about the other characters! Their personalities were great and grounded but I couldn't exactly picture their faces.


Maybe that's not important for some, but I really love facial expressions. Or maybe I was just really hungry for facial descriptions for this particular novel!


So now, I'm completely at a loss after the end. I CAN NOT WAIT ANOTHER YEAR FOR THE NEXT BOOK .
NOR CAN I WAIT TWO YEARS FOR THE THIRD BOOK. AND DONT EVEN ASK ABOUT ME WAITING FOR THE FOURTH IN 3 YEARS.


I'm gasping and shaking. How can I wait so long?


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